On Monday, 9 September 2019 at 18:16:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Recall Martin Odersky's great DConf keynote in 2018.
>> http://janvitek.org/pubs/oopsla19b.pdf
Hehe,
Whenever mention of 'implicits considered dangerous' is brought up in a scala context I always think back to this small piece of British comedy gold.
https://youtu.be/kVuCVmDWU-U?t=189
...think you need to have seen the original robocop (1987) to fully appreciate the reference but I think it sums up perfectly my (and many others'!) experiences with the magical world of implicits in scala :-)
Cheers,
A.

On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 23:57:14 UTC, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Monday, 9 September 2019 at 18:16:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Recall Martin Odersky's great DConf keynote in 2018.
>>>> http://janvitek.org/pubs/oopsla19b.pdf>> Hehe,
>> Whenever mention of 'implicits considered dangerous' is brought up in a scala context I always think back to this small piece of British comedy gold.
>> https://youtu.be/kVuCVmDWU-U?t=189>> ...think you need to have seen the original robocop (1987) to fully appreciate the reference but I think it sums up perfectly my (and many others'!) experiences with the magical world of implicits in scala :-)
>> Cheers,
>> A.
Couldn't resist - here's the original :-) Apologies there's some coarse language.
Cheers,
A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORddlMjfSfk